when I built up my faction enough and had researched the master armor and weapons, I went into shop & bought the master full heavy plate armor left shop attempted to equip sov with said armor by clicking on it in the items list CTD with dumps.
loaded autosave to test if it was the full set of armor or something else, did same ctd
dump, err, 1
dump err 2
then loaded autosave and tested in design unit window also CTD with dumps
dump & err 3
harpo